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Study Cinema in the Summer 2024
Cinema Studies summer courses are open to all majors! Course restrictions not enforced in the summer, and many satisfy Core Ed requirements. Initial registration begins May 6, 2024.
CINE Majors: Please visit the course list page for the complete list of summer courses and how they satisfy the major.
Space is Available for Spring ’24 in CINE 198: Post Production Workflow
CINE 198: Post Production Workflow is an essential workshop that will help you succeed in your CINE filmmaking courses and your future filmmaking career. We explore foundational editing skills, such as media management, transcoding, and how to create a workflow to accommodate various media types. This course is recommended to be taken in conjunction with or before CINE 270 or other Production A courses.
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Lessons from Sundance: Filmmaker Masami Kawai Finds Her Footing
The cinema studies professor brings the inspiration of Robert Redford’s movie institute to the classroom.
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Apply Now for Spring Term’s CINE 426: The Art of Producing
Find Your Voice as a Producer: Learn from a Guest Producer and Guest Filmmakers!
Taught by Cinema Studies Career Instructor Alissa Phillips, CINE 426: The Art of Producing will feature lectures by a guest Producer–whose credits you will know–and additional talented guest filmmakers! Apply now for spring term 2024.
Applications are now closed.
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Congratulations CINE Students and Faculty Screening Films at PLSFF
Cinema Studies is pleased to congratulate students and faculty who have been selected to screen their short films and videos at the Poetic Lens Short Film Festival!
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Sundance Institute and The Walt Disney Studios Launch the Project Advancement and Completion Fund to Support Underrepresented Directors
LA-born filmmaker of Ryukyuan descent and UO Cinema Studies Professor of Filmmaking, Masami Kawai, is paving the way for a more inclusive cinema landscape. Kawai was selected for Sundance Institute and The Walt Disney Studios’ Project Advancement and Completion Fund, which supports nine directors currently engaged in fiction features. These talented filmmakers are all from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds. Masami’s project, Valley of Tall Grass, is a feature film that tells the story of a TV/VCR combo set thrown out, but it survives and circulates through the lives of various working-class indigenous characters of color in an Oregon town. They find forgotten memories, love, and connection through this seemingly obsolete object. Continue reading “Sundance Institute and The Walt Disney Studios Launch the Project Advancement and Completion Fund to Support Underrepresented Directors “
Sundance Directors Lab 2023 Diary: Masami Kawai
This week Filmmaker is publishing three diaries from writers and directors who attended the 2023 Sundance Directors Lab. We’ve already published writer-director Dania Bdeir‘s, and next up is director-writer-producer Masami Kawai, who traveled to the Lab with Valley of the Tall Grass.
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Cinema Studies is accepting applications for student Lab Monitors for the 2023-24 academic year
The student Lab Monitor works in the Cinema Studies Lab located in 267 Knight Library. Their primary duties are supervising the lab space and providing assistance for students using computers during open lab times. The Lab Monitor’s other responsibilities include routine cleaning and disinfecting of the space, trouble shooting computer issues, assisting students with production software, and other routine duties.
Deadline to Apply: Friday, September 1, 2023 at 9:00am.
Newberg drive-in theater celebrates 70 years
Cinema Studies Associate Professor Michael Aronson, co-director of the Oregon Theater Project, and Brian Francis, owner of 99W Drive-In Theater, joined OPB’s Think Out Loud to disucss the history of drive-ins in the state. Read the OPB article and listen to the full conversation.